The Grand Illusion
The legal process in the United States has always been slow, in part because it involves checks and balances at every level. Today, as I’ve previously noted, it’s slower than ever.
In an effort to bend all branches of government to the President’s will, the current administration has launched an all-out attack on policies, rules, laws, and even the Constitution itself, as well as on longstanding judicial case law and precedents.
These Executive branch actions, whether legal or not, can be ordered almost instantly. One of the latest is Trump’s withholding various sources of federal funding from states or cities refusing to follow Trump’s demands involving immigration, many of which have been rejected by federal courts as being unlawful.
While news sources have often failed to point out is that, in the majority of lawsuits, the Trump administration has either lost the initial suits or had the Administration’s powers curbed to a degree, but because the Administration appeals everything to the Supreme Court, the process of employing the courts to force the President to comply with the Constitution is long, time-consuming, and expensive.
In the meantime, the Trump Administration continues adding “initiatives” of dubious legality to hamper or punish cities, states, organizations, and individuals who oppose Trump’s power grabs.
The result is a sort of “race,” where the Trump Administration keeps trying to cut federal programs and services legislated, authorized, and funded by Congress, as well as engaging in hiring and firing practices clearly legally questionable, faster than the courts can handle the lawsuits asserting the illegality of previous Executive branch actions.
Unfortunately, this particular race not only overloads the judicial system, but weakens the checks and balances instituted by the framers of the Constitution, something clearly understood by those manipulating the spoiled narcissistic superannuated toddler who calls himself the most powerful man on the planet.
The Unstable Jackass really is a piece of work, isn’t he?
But yeah, if we’re ever going to have stable government again in this country, some kind of measures will have to be put in place so some thoughtfulness can remain.
The media can’t take time to examine any issue, because another comes down before they can even get started. The courts, as LEM astutely notes, ditto. (And the Supremely Egregious Court is likely to rule against the Constitution anyway.)
Just fyi, I put together a list of all the crap that came down on us through mid-June or so of this year. Sickening, isn’t it?
Jan 6 pardons
“Some people might like a dictator”
DOGE
tariffs
Big Butt-Ugly Bill
Ballroom, arch
Epstein files
ICE, Renee Good, Alex Pretti
Boats in the Caribbean
Maduro
Iran
“I love the inflation.”
There is a scarier international “race” noted by the professional security leaders of some nations including the US and UK. This is described in:
Scarier than fiction: ‘The Wizard of the Kremlin’ comes to life
How Beijing and Moscow are fracturing the free world
By Stephen R. Nagy Contributing writer, Jun 25, 2026, Japan Times
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/06/25/world/beijing-moscow-fracture-free-world/
For those who are yawning, there is a more interesting look at our race for the potential technical future due to be handed to people elected into positions of autocratic “Power” in:
The Coming Quantum National Security Crisis
China and Russia Are Harvesting Encrypted Secrets—and Getting Closer to Cracking Them
Anne Neuberger, June 17, 2026, Foreign Affairs
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/china/coming-quantum-national-security-crisis
Yes, “Some people might like a dictator”: if some do not we can make them “Cool” with ICE.
It seems to me that the root of this problem stems directly from our current conservative Supreme Court. I should say a Supreme Court that is out of setup with mainstream jusisprudence. Why do I say this? Well, the current SCOTUS has created a ‘demand’ case for the administration to appeal every lower court case that it loses. And there are a LOT of them. That demand comes from the unusually high number of administration cases that it has taken on from the White House, when there is not necessarily a reason to do so (SCOTUS takes on only a fraction of the cases that it is petitioned to do). And why is this? Because the current SCOTUS is ruling in favor of this administration and in doing so making Trump happy, overruling precedent, making new law, putting Congress in its place, or simply aiding and abetting the tactic addressed by LEM in his original post – allowing a blitzkrieg of unlawful or unwanted actions by this administration such that no checks can be made on it. One could call it bureaucratic corruption of the highest order. The preponderance of lower court rulings that the WH has lost actually truly represents mainstream law.